U.S. History
Babylon 5
Presidential Authors
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U.S. Constitution
100

This Lone Star State was the last State to secede before Fort Sumter was fired upon to start the American Civil War.

What is Texas?

100

The question asked by the Vorlons.

Who are you?

100

His 1821 autobiography was the first Presidential autobiography, but is focused more on the Declaration of Independence than his two terms as President.

Who was Thomas Jefferson?

100

The country this expatriot lived in while posting on the Atlas.

What is Thailand?

100

The name commonly used for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

What is the The Bill of Rights?

200

What Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7th, 1941?

What is "a date which will live in infamy"?

200

The question asked by the Shadows.

What do you want?

200

Despite being known for his silence, his 1929 autobiography was initially serialized in the magazine later helmed by the loquacious Helen Gurley Brown.

Who was Calvin Coolidge?

200

People who are economically disadvantaged.

Who are "poors"?

200

This State was the only one of the original thirteen States to originally reject the Constitution before eventually becoming the last to ratify it.

What is Rhode Island?

300

The oldest post on the History board of the Talk Elections forum inquired into the then current whereabouts of this 1980 Presidential candidate whose signature proposal was a 50 cent per gallon gas tax increase paired with a 50% reduction in Social Security taxes?

Who was John Anderson?

300

The name was Jeffrey Sinclair was known by at his death.

What is Valen?

300

This future Assistant Secretary of the Navy began his prolific writing career with the two-volume The Naval War of 1812 in 1882, writing on subjects including history, politics, and hunting and fishing.

Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

300

The "bad place".

What is the United States?

300

The only amendment number used for three separate proposed amendments sent to the States by Congress.

What is the Thirteenth Amendment?

400

This unsuccessful Presidential candidate was called "the continental liar from the State of Maine" by the opposing party.

Who was James Gillespie Blaine?

400

This recurring Psi Corps character played by Walter Koenig was named after a science fiction author who is known for his stories involving telepaths.

Who was Alfred Bester?

400

The only President to have won a Pulitzer Prize for his "Profiles in Courage".

Who was John Kennedy.

400

His supposed occupation.

What is an ESL (English as a second language) tutor?

400

This amendment took over two centuries to be ratified.

What is the Twenty-seventh Amendment?

500

This Ohio Senator was known principally for his general brother, and an Antitrust Act and a Silver Purchase Act named after him.

Who was John Sherman?

500

This caretaker of the Great Machine observed to Commander Ivanova that "insects are not so good for conversation, but much protein for diet."

Who is Zathras?

500

In 1912, this mining engineer and future Secretary of Commerce co-wrote with his wife Lou the first English translation of the seminal 1556 mining text, De re metallica.

Who is Herbert Hoover?

500

The U.S. State opebo was from.

What is Missouri?

500

The number of States required to ratify the Constitution for it to take effect.

What is nine?

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